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MORE than 150 police have been injured in violent clashes with protesters at a demonstration in northern Germany against next week's G8 summit, a police spokesman says. Some of the injuries were serious, the spokesman said, after updating an earlier injured figure of 100. Masked demonstrators hurled Molotov cocktails, stones and bottles at police as tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Rostock, a port city near Heiligendamm where the Group of Eight leaders will gather for three days of talks from Wednesday. Protesters overturned and set fire to several cars, an AFP reporter said. Demonstrators from...

DETAILS OF JUNE 2 DEMONSTRATION Our central message, "Protect America and the World from Bush" is meant to encompass a broad range of concerns about the Bush administration, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the administration's policies on healthcare, the environment, church/state, education, economy, civil rights, civil liberties, etc. Our plan is to gather at the South Gate of the Air Force Academy from 8:30 until 11:00 AM. From I-25, take exit 150B (US Air Force Academy South Entrance) and turn west, approx. 0.5 mile. Our authorized demonstration area will be on the right side as you drive...

In the report that follows, CLICK ON ANY PHOTO AND A FULL SIZE VERSION OF THE PHOTO SHOULD APPEAR . (Thumbnail photos hyperlinked to full versions.)  Also, I've linked to several sound files in WAV format.  Click on them and you should hear the sounds. Right click and save if you want to listen to them later. Across the street from Rumsfeld's house with French Embassy and their fence behind us, FReepers wait for leftists.  TgslTakoma has back to camera as she makes last minute signs.  Trueblackman discusses Iraq with a liberal on a bicycle.  Kristinn holds a sign behind Bmwcyle...

A trail of mourning and truth to honor those killed and wounded in Iraq, with legal processions to be followed by nonviolent direct action at the White House Sunday, March 14 - Monday, March 15 The Bush Administration refuses to acknowledge those being killed and wounded by war in Iraq , but we will not. In order to acknowledge the true toll of this war, starting at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the war dead arrive, this memorial procession will honor our fallen brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and friends, along with Iraqis...

Mobile users told to 'chase Bush' Protesters angry about the "security bubble" around President George Bush on his UK visit are being asked to use gadgets to be heard and seen. The Chasing Bush campaign is asking people to "disrupt the PR" of the visit by spoiling stage-managed photos. They are being encouraged to send location reports and images by mobile to be posted on the Chasing Bush site. "We want to give people a chance to be a visible voice of dissatisfaction," said campaign organiser Tim Ireland. Not smiling Technologies like text messaging and weblogs have been successfully used...

Bad, treasonous uglies are scheming to demoralize our brave US troops! Come to Outpost 122 on Saturday to join in with OSOT ralliers to hold down our bridge and defend the honor of our fine troops, as 3000 Reserves arrive at Ft. Lewis to train to defend our country and liberties.

<p>END the OCCUPATION of IRAQ!</p> <p>MONEY for JOBS, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE and HOUSING - NOT WAR!</p> <p>On March 20, 2004, protests will take place all around the world on the one year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq. People are organizing on a global scale to demand an end to the occupation of Iraq and an immediate withdrawal of U.S. military forces from the country.</p>

On Saturday, October 25th, several thousand people protested in San Francisco, the largest demonstration in the Bay Area since April 12th. It was a sister demonstration to one occurring that same day in Washington, D.C. While the protest was purportedly against the presence of American troops in Iraq, those stumbling onto the protest by accident might be forgiven for thinking it was really against Israel. The Palestinian flags scattered liberally among the crowd, the keffiyehs on many of the organizers, the plethora of speakers from pro-Palestinian organizations - all the evidence indicates the protest organizers want the Jews out of...

Nuns say prison won't kill their spirit of protest Thursday, July 24, 2003By Charles Honey Press Religion Editor The Catholic sisters have been in jail before, after breaking into U.S. military bases to pour their own blood on weapons and symbolically hammer against warfare. But on Friday, three Grand Rapids-based Dominican nuns face sentences in a Denver federal court far harsher than any they ever have received -- raising protests that they are paying an unjustified price because of the U.S. crackdown on terrorism. Sisters Jackie Hudson, Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert are to be sentenced for their protest at...

<p>Naked women, transvestites, dogs, dancers, singer Harry Belafonte and others joined Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, for an antiwar protest Saturday to "praise the patriotism of the demonstrators and condemn the military action in Iraq," the Oakland Tribune reported yesterday.</p>

Maybe its just because they are not sophisticated. Maybe its just that they are uninformed. Maybe they are afraid of things that go bump in the night, or maybe they honestly do believe that which they espouse. Whatever the case, I've had it. I can not and I will not take it any more. A little background would be helpful, I'm sure. This last Saturday, I was on the way into my local grocery supermarket here in suburban Chicago. The nation was still reeling from the deaths of 21 young people in Chicago, and 97 in Warwick, R.I. I was...

Here's an MSN poll worthy of a good Freeping. "Are war protestors anti-American?" (And IMHO, for the most part, they definitely are.) Direct Link

As war with Mordor looms on the edge of the horizon, peace protestors gathered today before the Black Gate in a demonstration against the actions of Gandalf the Wizard and the Fellowship of the Willing. “We’re here because we believe that war is wrong,” said Eldohil, president of Elves for Peace. Pointing to the Dagorlad before him, he said, “This very place is a testimony to the uselessness and destruction of war.” Protestors carried signs that said “Peace for Middle-Earth” and “Who would Iluvatar kill?” Elsewhere Gondorians paraded through the streets of Minas Tirith in opposition to the Lord Denethor’s...

If Saddam Hussein disarms and there is no war, then the real work of building a democratic Iraq begins, says Chris Hudson AN PHOBLACHT, Sinn Fein's idea of a newspaper, had a go at me last week for not going on the Dublin peace march because I believed some of the organisers were anti-American. But what goes round comes round. They could not attend the march in Shannon because of threatened violence; well, at least they have a sense of humour. The focus of the Dublin peace march was George Bush and Tony Blair and condemnation of their position, which...

Praise the Lord, drop the bombs By Jeffrey C. BillmanPublished 2/27/03 Shannon Burke really wants me to think his "Rally for America" is about patriotism. "It's not pro-war," he says repeatedly the day before the rally. "It has nothing to do with war."But I'm skeptical. I've heard Burke's radio talk show -- 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on 540-AM WFLA -- often enough to know that he's an unabashed supporter of President Bush, and the use of military force to depose Saddam Hussein. I also know that he announced the Rally for America Feb. 17, two days after 6...

<p>"Last weekend, across Europe and America, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million people marched against a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. All protests against war are ultimately ethical in nature, and Saturday's placard-wavers did not break with tradition: "Give Peace a Chance," "Make Tea, Not War," "Bush and Blair -- the Real War Criminals." These are statements of sentiment, not power politics, and the sentiment is, or is meant to be, a moral one.</p>

MICHAEL McDowell has ordered an investigation into one of the main groups behind the anti-war protest in Dublin yesterday, following public complaints that the far-left Socialist Workers Party (SWP), which was also involved in the Shannon protests, has been using its website to promote anti-Semitic stereotypes. A spokesperson for Minister for Justice told the Sunday Independent that gardai are conducting a criminal probe into whether some of the contents are in breach of the Incitement to Hatred Act. Richard Boyd-Barrett, the SWP organiser who is also chairperson of the Irish Anti-War Movement Steering Committee, described as "utter rubbish" the claim...

<p>A splinter group of more than 200 black-clad protesters broke off from Saturday's peaceful rally and went on a brief romp through the Financial District, smashing windows and news racks before melting away before the eyes of frustrated police.</p> <p>A police spokesman said officers made two arrests.</p>

Peace Protest Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism The anti-war demonstration in Central Park yesterday, one of several across the country over the weekend, was riddled with anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment, and in some cases classical anti-Semitism, as thousand of protesters assembled for what was ostensibly a show of harmless political dissent. Estimates of the number of protesters in New York ranged between 3,000 and 10,000, with people arriving from throughout the tri-state area. Many combined their opposition to President Bush’s plans for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq with hostility to Israel. One protester even cited the classical anti-Semitic forgery known as...